Energy Release in a Prominence-Loaded Flaring Loop

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Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995soph..159..137w&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 159, Issue 1, pp.137-141

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Zaitsev and Stepanov (1991, 1992) proposed a mechanism for energy release in solar flares that involves the intrusion of dense prominence material into a coronal loop. The resulting non-steady state conditions are claimed to increase the resistance of the loop by 8 10 orders of magnitude. It is shown here that the dramatic increase in resistance calculated by Zaitsev and Stepanov depends on a gross overestimate of the of the magnitude of the magnetic force in the loop prior to the flare trigger. A more realistic estimate of the increase due to the mechanism suggests that it is by no more than about four orders of magnitude. As a consequence, the ‘prominence-loading‘ mechanism does not provide a tenable flare model.

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